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Show C ill 3 A AM) JAPAN. S-iu Francisco. 8. Arrived the steamer City of Peking, four days' overdue, from Hong Koug via Y"ko hama. She came through with one engine, the other having brnken down sbortiy after leaving Yokohama. Hong Kong, June 15. The United States consul at Faochow has received MJ0 from the bighiht officers ol the province of Fukien for distribution through two American medical missionaries to the suffering sick. This donation is unprecedented. Miss Traak and Doctor Ogoul are designated to apply the fund, A movement is in pr.'gri-sB to establish estab-lish a government postal syiiten umirr the sanctiou and encouragement of Li Hung Chang, viceroy of Chihli provinces. Reports of an impend, ng diplomatic breach between Chit.a and Germany are aulboratatively contradicted. The Chinese authorities are mak ing renewed efbrtu toward the con ques; of Southern Farmosa, the forti tied city laid out on the Bite of the encampment established by the Japanese expedition in 1874. Taiwan Fuy, capital ot the Chinese Formosa, was devastated by atomido about the end of My. There ws great destruction of properly; several live were lost. The discovery is just made tbat Biabop Ridel aud other French mis sionaries, are hold coufiued in the 3apital of Corea, and in danger of ieath. A call is made lor their rescue. Uuusual and unexpected acknowledgments acknowl-edgments are made from the highest Chinese authorities of the eflorts by foreigners to alleviate the sufTereis from famine. Rain at last has fallen in the northern provinces and faint hoprB are entertained that the prolonged pro-longed drouth, with its m'sries, ru-y end; but up to this timo there is no abatement of the distress Yokohama, June 19 All three of the iron clada built in England for Japan hsve now arrived aud are ready for service. j Three gover or nf K-m-gwa i province, in which Yuk bama is in j cludrd, are now under arrest on charges of fomnnting political dis orders. Toe Japanese pres lrs are about to be modified. All imprisonments , of journalism are to be aholmhed and fines substituted. The regulations are very moderato as a whole, though Ooeortwo arbitrary features remain. SeriouB affrays in Yokohama, be tween sailors of Russian and British ishipsof war have occurred. Biood is frequently hrd. A new military college was opened at I'okii, June 10, on apian similar to that of West Point |